Hi all,
This track turned out to be a great choice. It's a great car equalizer, so I thought I might even have a fighting chance with the BRM, which I chose to save up some tokens.
Ufortunately I was struggling in quali and I couldn't find the extra time I could in the practice races beforehand. In the very last lap however I managed to do a good lap which put me 6th on the grid.
The start was good for me, unfortunately not so much for John who held me up a little bit, but I didn't dare to switch lines so stayed in his wake. Next coupla corners went well, then I saw Al sideways at T3. I chose the inside line which was the right choice and I instantly made up four spots to P3
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The race progressed from there with a charging Hiro and John behind, but I managed to hold them off, before Bob in front of me made a mistake at T5. He was in the middle of the track but I could get around him quite well so now I was in P2! I was extatic, especially since it seemed I could keep up with the rest fairly well. This progressed for a coupla laps with the bunch behind swapping places back and forth, and me getting away together with Bob.
That's when it all went wrong. I was just accelerating out of the second to last corner when my camshaft failed and my engine exploded into a million pieces! I was pulling low revs at that slow corner and wasn't amidst a gear change, so I guess it's bad luck rather than driver error? Either way, bummer because I was en route to scoring the best BRM result of the season!
Ironically this happened at Riverside as well, only that time I was in the lead! Argh, America hasn't been very kind for me lately. Let's see what the other brings. The Glen is my least favorite track out of them all but by then I will have my Fez back so I hope to score a good result regardless. After hopefully surviving The Glen I hope to do well at Kyalami as well, one of my favorites
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I also see Hristo still has a four point lead after substracting the worst two results, hopefully I can find those in the second half of the season!
Tom.